Name: Nip It In The Bud
Duration: P00H02M50S
Description: Written in 1988 or 89. Recorded on 4-track, then recorded on demo, then revisited in an arrangement by my brother (and performer in his own right) Brendan Lynch.

Nip It In The Bud

from The Krakatoa Sessions by Megan Lynch

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Written in 1988 or 89. Recorded on 4-track, then recorded on demo, then revisited in an arrangement by my brother (and performer in his own right) Brendan Lynch.

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I've been making like a pendulum
Just swinging to and fro
Oh, he loves me
He loves me not
You know, it's like to give me vertigo
This time I think, "You'll reap just what you sow.
You've got yourself one bad stud."
Then you go and nip it in the bud

Ever since the first time I saw you
My heart's been hammering in my chest
But every time I make headway with you
My superego says, "Give it a rest"
I wanna serenade you but I come out
Sounding like Elmer Fudd
Who'd blame you if you
Nipped it in the bud?

You think my life is cigareets, whiskey &
I'm a wild, wild woman
But how can I show you
That ain't the way I'm living?
'Cause I drink Dubonnet
I keep cigareets at bay
And I've got a sex life like Doris Day

So if I sidle up to you
I'm just pretending you're a single man
I'm just hoping and praying
For the day that I won't be an also-ran
Maybe someday you'll be free
And my name won't be mud
Then you won't have to nip it in the bud

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from The Krakatoa Sessions, track released September 9, 1998
Vocals by Megan Lynch; Arranged & Produced by Brendan Lynch; Written by Megan Lynch

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Megan Lynch South Pasadena, California

Megan Lynch is equally at home singing her original compositions, Tin Pan Alley, rock, pop, country, blues, light opera, and various world musics. She uses a full palette of thrums, yelps, croons, yodels, growls and ululations in order to paint the picture called for by the song. ... more

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